# Kaila Yu — RSS Amplifier

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## [I Watched Raise the Red Lantern and Thanked God I Didn’t Grow Up in 1920s China](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/i-watched-raise-the-red-lantern-and)

_2026-08-22 · FETISHIZED_

I thought Raise the Red Lantern was about a world I had escaped. Years later, I realized I had entered my own version of its competition for male attention.

## [I Was Thrilled to Be in Tokyo Drift. Twenty Years Later, I See the Problem.](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/i-was-in-tokyo-drift-now-i-see-what)

_2026-08-17 · FETISHIZED_

Long before I appeared for ten seconds in Tokyo Drift, the franchise had been borrowing from an Asian American world I knew intimately.

## [At 35, Kiki Wong Got the Rock Star Break She’d Been Chasing for Years](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/how-kiki-wong-went-from-tiktok-guitar)

_2026-08-09 · FETISHIZED_

The guitarist talks about touring, YUNGBLUD, Olivia Rodrigo, finally getting her dream gig, and why success arrived decades after she expected.

## [Every career I've built started with me being embarrassingly bad in public.](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/every-career-ive-built-started-with)

_2026-07-31 · FETISHIZED_

I've built five careers. Every one started with me looking stupid.

## [Why This Equinox Ad Feels So Wrong](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/why-this-equinox-ad-feels-so-wrong)

_2026-07-23 · FETISHIZED_

It objectifies all women. But making the woman Asian changes the story.

## [My memoir didn’t include a single photo. Here’s why I’m posting them now](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/my-memoir-didnt-include-a-single)

_2026-07-20 · FETISHIZED_

The stories behind the images that never made it into Fetishized.

## [Do I Have an Eating Disorder?](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/im-trying-to-lose-five-pounds-its)

_2026-07-13 · FETISHIZED_

I’m about five minutes away from going on Ozempic

## [I've Lived Nine Lives. Here's How I Keep Starting Over.](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/who-is-kaila-yu-anyway)

_2026-07-08 · FETISHIZED_

If you're new, start here.

## [The dream came true. My life didn’t change.](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/i-got-the-book-deal-now-what)

_2026-07-04 · FETISHIZED_

On the strange grief of getting everything you wanted and still having to start over

## [I wish I could do OnlyFans, too](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/i-wish-i-could-do-onlyfans-too)

_2026-05-18 · FETISHIZED_

The money looks liberating. I know firsthand what it can cost.

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_2026-05-18 · **Sponsored**_

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## [I loved Memoirs of a Geisha, and that is the problem.](https://fetishized.substack.com/p/i-loved-memoirs-of-a-geisha-and-that)

_2025-12-23 · FETISHIZED_

Today marks the film’s 20th anniversary. Why is no one talking about it?